(Limited) Buttermilk Biscuits, Lots of Pastured Chicken & Goat Meat, Tofu, Fall Produce, Coffee, Brioche Buns, Preserves & More!
What We Have and What’s Expected for the Week of November 17th
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Going into the last full week before Thanksgiving, we have lots of lovely local food for you and more scheduled to come in throughout the week as usual!
Most exciting, we got more frozen bake-at-home buttermilk biscuits from Shreveport Biscuit Company last week! The new Apple Pie flavor is already out, along with Classic biscuits, but we do have some Pumpkin & Spice, Red River Cheddar and Gluten Free Classic biscuits. They are going to try to do another restock the week after Thanksgiving!
And we’re continuing our goat meat sale this week and we’re very stocked up on pastured chicken, too!
There’s a two sizes of shrimp, yellowfin tuna, red grouper filets, soft-shell crabs, alligator strips, smoked fish portions and collars in seafood category and lots of pastured pork, just low on sausages and a few other cuts.
We are scheduled to get more beef from Little Creek Hay & Cattle this Friday.
We also brought more of our pigs to the butcher last week and it’s looking like I just be able to pick up of the pork next Tuesday, Nov. 24th, just in time to restock various sausages for your Thanksgiving dressing/stuffing!
And with the freeze on the Northshore and in Mississippi, we’ll see some crops come to an end now (tomatoes, basil, peppers, summer squash and possibly cucumbers, though Homegrown in Folsom still has some growing in a high tunnel).
But more and more cool season veggies are joining the list every week. Tomorrow we expect the first radicchio of the season from Compostella, along with their orange or rainbow carrot bunches, broccolini and lettuce (plus the usual arugula and baby mustard)!
More fresh herbs and greens will come in from River Queen tomorrow afternoon, along with more beets, sweet potatoes and spaghetti squash from Two Dog Farms.
We’ll also get our usual dairy delivery from Feliciana’s Best on Tuesday, fresh bread and buns from Bellegarde on Wednesday and Friday and fresh pasta from Il Supremo on Tuesday.
There’s also lots of tofu delivered on Friday and hummus and pesto from Nur’s Kitchen delivered on Thursday, with more coming this Thursday as usual.
We restocked coffee from Flamjeaux last week, so we have five roasts/origins in whole beans and four roasts/origins in ground coffee, plus cold brew, chai concentrate and simple syrups from Church Alley and lots of herbal teas from Family Fungi.
There’s also lots of preserves (jams, jellies and pickles). honey and maple syrup, frozen brioche buns, oils and vinegars, stone-milled flours, rice and grits, clay peas, herbal tinctures, seasonings and more!
Pick Up & Delivery Options:
Our Metairie store is open 10 am-6 pm, Tuesday-Saturday as usual. Daily order deadline is 3 pm.
Bogalusa Farm Pick Up is an option on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday morning, 8 am-noon. Order deadline for next day pick up is 2 pm.
Mandeville Farm Hub on Wednesday, 1-1:30 pm at Open Spaces Studios, 1281 N Causeway Blvd. #1, Mandeville. Home deliveries in an 8 mile radius around Open Spaces available before and afterwards. Deadline to order is 9 am on Wednesday.
Covington Farm Hub also on Wednesday, 3-3:30 pm at Nur’s Kitchen, 100 N Tyler St., Covington. Home deliveries in an 8 mile radius around Nur’s Kitchen available before and afterwards. Deadline to order is 9 am on Wednesday.
Lakeview Farm Hub on Thursday, 4-5 pm at the Bird’s Nest Cafe, 6508 Spanish Fort Blvd. Home deliveries in 70005, 70119, 70122 and 70124 beforehand. Deadline to order is noon on Thursday.
Irish Channel Farm Hub on Friday, 10 am to 12 pm inside Levee Baking Co., 3138 Magazine St D. Home deliveries in 70112, 70113, 70115, 70118, 70121, 70125 and 70130 afterwards. Deadline to order is 4 pm on Thursday.
Here's the full list breakdown of all our grocery categories:
Donations for Mutual Aid: We added meat shares back to the mutual aid donation options last week and thanks to your gifts were able to bring a bunch of smoked pork hocks to the community fridge on Touro St., in St. Roch on Saturday. Blaire also brought some milk, microgreens, basil, cherry tomatoes, Napa cabbage, mustard greens, baby tatsoi and lettuce to that fridge, too!
Pastured Eggs: Local Cooling Farms eggs to start the week and we may restock from Credo Farms on Friday.
Pastured Dairy: Goat milk and several goat cheeses to start the week, with our usual delivery of Feliciana’s Best cow dairy products on Tuesday.
Bread & Pasta: We still have a decent supply of frozen brioche buns in stock, plus frozen pizza dough. Bellegarde will deliver more bread and buns on Wednesday and Friday and more fresh pasta is coming from Il Supremo on Tuesday.
Local Produce: Three types of apples (the first pink lady apples of the season came and went last week, but we should be getting more on Tuesday), cold-pressed turmeric juice, two sizes of frozen blueberries, dill, garlic, turmeric root, lion’s mane, pearl oyster, pioppino or shimofuri mushrooms, broccoli, green onion or sugar snap pea microgreens, arugula, baby kale, baby lettuce or baby tatsoi greens for salad, caraflex or purple Napa cabbage, purple bell peppers, kohlrabi, hakurei turnips, purple daikon, red rover or watermelon radishes and koginut or sweet dumpling squashes.
Plant-Based Protein: All tofu options — plain, black mushroom and red chili lemongrass fresh tofu blocks, as well as fried black mushroom and red chili lemongrass tofu cubes.
Bone Broth: Beef, chicken, trinity and two types of pet bone broth in stock.
Forest-Raised Pork: Until we pick up the latest round of pork from the butcher next week, we have bacon, bacon ends, stir fry tenderloin strips, boneless chops, Boston butt or picnic shoulder roasts, breakfast sausage links and liver, plus spare ribs, jowls, smoked hocks, bones and trotters on sale!
Grassfed Beef: Beef bones are back, but everything else is out until Friday!
Wild-Foraged Goat Meat: We’re doing a 15% off sale on the entire category — so ground goat, loin chops (mini t-bones), rack steaks (rib chops), boneless stew/kebab meat, neck and shoulder roasts, shanks, rib racks and bones!
Pastured Poultry: Stocked up on all chicken cuts and sausages, so whole and half birds, tenders, breasts, thighs, leg quarters, drumsticks, wings, frames/bones for broth, hearts and livers, as well as dehydrated livers, feet and skin for pet treats, plus ground chicken, gouda and apple, buffalo, chorizo or green onion sausages!
Gulf Seafood: Yellowfin tuna filets are back, plus red grouper filets, soft-shell crabs, alligator strips, red grouper collars, smoked almaco jack portions and large or medium size peeled and deveined shrimp.
Coffee & Tea: Restocked coffee in both whole bean and ground options. Plus there’s lots of herbal and reishi teas from Family Fungi and cold brew, chai concentrate and simple syrups from Church Alley.
Dips & Condiments: Almost all hummus flavors to start the week, except dill & feta and roasted red pepper. Plus pesto! More coming on Thursday as usual.
Pantry: Lots of lovely infused vinegars, plus salts and sugars from Rose Wagon Ranch, along with Texas olive oil and balsamic vinegar and pecan oil and pecan butter from Guidry Organic Farms and apple cider vinegar from Scott’s Orchard. Plus there’s Crop to Pop-corn, salts and seasonings, dehydrated mushrooms, mushroom powder, soup & dip mix, chili oil and hot sauce, graNOLA and more!
Pet Treats: Dehydrated liver, feet and skin from A&A Acres and two types of pet bone broth from Credo Farms.
Sweets: Plenty of our Wisconsin maple syrup, plus local raw honey, elderberry juice, infused elderberry honey, infused blueberry honey and creamed honey.
Rice, Grains & Stone Ground Corn Products: Lots of rice, grits, cornmeal and whole grain and clay pea options from Two Brooks Rice and Marsh Hen Mill, plus stone-milled flours from Barton Springs Mill and Bellegarde.
Ferments: Out of kombucha again, aiming to restock soon! And there’s a few types of kimchi from VEGGI Coop and Resurrection Gardens, as well as kraut, giardiniera and chow chow.
Preserves: Lots of favorite berry, muscadine, mayhaw and hibiscus jams, jellies and preserves available from Josey’s Goods, plus pepper jellies and lots of pickles.
Herbal Remedies: Turmeric and ginger tinctures, plus various lovely mushroom and herb tinctures from Family Fungi along with reishi and herbal teas. There’s also Mineral Manna electrolyte oxymel and a few elderberry syrups and juices from Family Fungi and Cockeyed Farms.
Merch: Canvas bags, t-shirts, hats and mugs.